The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.

Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they envy our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow minded, pinch-backed race of man, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. They aught to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.